May 11th, 2004

Petabox: One Million Gigabytes"> Petabox: One Million Gigabytes

Mine’s Bigger Dept: The Internet Archive has a machine called the Petabox which can handle a petabyte or one million gigabytes.

Here are some highlights:

* Low power– 6kWatts per rack, and 60kWatts for the whole system
* High density– 100 Terabytes per rack
* Local computing to process the data– 800 low-end PC’s
* Multi-OS possible, Llinux standard
* Colocation friendly– requires our own rack to get 100TB/rack, or 50TB in a standard rack
* Shipping container friendly– Able to be run in a 20′ by 8′ by 8′ shipping container
* Easy Maintainance– one system administrator per petabyte
* Software to automate mirroring with itself
* Inexpensive design
* Inexpensive storage

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